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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 483530" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>like said best to do asap. </p><p>If the cord is right short, up against the body, prone to infection. </p><p>Real long, on the ground long, prone to infection</p><p>backwards claving presentaion prone to infection</p><p>hands dirty, not wearing clean gloves while handling the navel, prone to infection</p><p>crowding, prone to infection</p><p>poor or untimely colostrum intake and stress at birth possibly prone to infection.</p><p></p><p>Even though we do the clean bedding, iodine, and everything else, if our hand are not clean, we are pretty much killing any chance of what we do working.</p><p></p><p>edit, navel ill is also contagious. Yes it is. If a calf has it and lays somewhere and a newborn or a calf with a new, or "wet navel lays there the bacteria is transfered and volia an out break occurs. We experience this and asked our vet about it. She said it can be contaigious in calves born near the same time if they lay in the same spot as the sick one.</p><p>by the time we found this out, it had hit 30 some calves in some sort of severity. we went through lots of gloves, iodine, nuflor, predef, time, and energy fighting it. We had never had cases like that before. The following year we started getting it again, had the vet out. She she said the bedding was good, calves progressing well. We asked why, never before. She asked what had changed in our handling. More cattle. She said more cattle need more space. Working 100 cows in an area designed for 50 does not work. More navel ill, more scours more everything. Once we changed our areas, better control on disease!</p><p>Sorry for the long wind</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 483530, member: 6198"] like said best to do asap. If the cord is right short, up against the body, prone to infection. Real long, on the ground long, prone to infection backwards claving presentaion prone to infection hands dirty, not wearing clean gloves while handling the navel, prone to infection crowding, prone to infection poor or untimely colostrum intake and stress at birth possibly prone to infection. Even though we do the clean bedding, iodine, and everything else, if our hand are not clean, we are pretty much killing any chance of what we do working. edit, navel ill is also contagious. Yes it is. If a calf has it and lays somewhere and a newborn or a calf with a new, or "wet navel lays there the bacteria is transfered and volia an out break occurs. We experience this and asked our vet about it. She said it can be contaigious in calves born near the same time if they lay in the same spot as the sick one. by the time we found this out, it had hit 30 some calves in some sort of severity. we went through lots of gloves, iodine, nuflor, predef, time, and energy fighting it. We had never had cases like that before. The following year we started getting it again, had the vet out. She she said the bedding was good, calves progressing well. We asked why, never before. She asked what had changed in our handling. More cattle. She said more cattle need more space. Working 100 cows in an area designed for 50 does not work. More navel ill, more scours more everything. Once we changed our areas, better control on disease! Sorry for the long wind [/QUOTE]
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